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Time to Get on the 'GovBus'

By

Om Malik

Updated April 3, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

Aly Sabra Galal Abdell can be forgiven for having assumed that the Immigration and Naturalization Service is a joke. After all, the INS did issue visas to two dead terrorists, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, nearly six months after they perpetrated the Sept. 11 attack. But on April Fool's Day, Mr. Abdell, an Egyptian national, learned that the joke was on him -- he was arrested at Miami International Airport, with box-cutters in his carry-on bag. A quick computer check revealed that he had been deported from the U.S. in January.